Word: minding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...liberalization did not achieve any of the objectives that Khrushchev had in mind. The carefully fostered image of a new, "reasonable" Russia weakened but did not fragment the Western alliance, nor did it win the Soviets any significant amount of new ground in the soft spots of Southeast Asia and the Middle East. It did not even persuade the cagey Tito to sign up again for full membership in "the camp of socialism...
...fastest mind with which I have ever come in contact," said President Woodrow Wilson. "Probably the most charming extravert in the Western world," marveled a rival editor. Ebullient, egocentric, suave and unflaggingly dynamic, Herbert Bayard Swope stood splendidly apart in an era of splendid individualists. As reporter, foreign correspondent and executive editor on the famed New York World-Joseph Pulitzer's proudest monument-Swope gave a glamorous flair to the incisive, personalized brand of U.S. journalism that flourished before World War I and stretched into...
Citation: "Cultivator of the gardens of the mind, himself the very bud and bloom of humanistic learning, he follows Socrates in having taken as his modus operandi the emulous pursuit of all that is most excellent. We who in turn follow him are thankful that like his miraculous namesake in Exodus, though this Bush has long burned with the fiery ardor of true scholarship, yet has he not been consumed...
...ordinary Negro, mind you. He was a black Horatio Alger, who started out totin' them bales and wound up president of a big insurance company. What with that and the fact that the girl looks just as white as he does, the lieutenant lets his good instincts prevail. "A lot of people," he remarks with a superior air, "need somebody to look down...
...more than a curtain of silly gossip and slander." He coolly measures U.S. attitudes by materialist standards and finds that the label simply will not fit: "America is not egoist; for the common consciousness of America, egoism is shameful . . . There is no avarice in the American cast of mind. The American people are neither squeamish nor hypocritical about the importance of money in the modern world . . . The average European cares about money as well as the average American, but he tries to conceal the fact, for he has been accustomed to associating money with avarice." Where, asks Maritain, is there...